Windows Testing Using Kitchen Chef
Kitchen-Vagrant has the capability to spin up a windows instance for testing. To make it work you will need the vagrant-winrm to be installted on the worksta...
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Package Installer for Cygwin [apt-cyg].
After a longtime I was on my windows machine and had to make it feel more like my linux machine. So install the thing what everyone else does cygwin. Surpise...
Issues - Monitoring MongoDB using Nagios XI.
Monitoring for mongodb using nagiosxi is straight forword but you might have some issues when we are setting up. Here are few issues which might come up usin...
Installing CouchDB on Ubuntu 14 LTS.
CouchDB is a database that completely embraces the web. Store your data with JSON documents. Access your documents and query your indexes with your web brows...
Installing MongoDB on Ubuntu 14 LTS.
MongoDB is an open-source document database, and leading NoSQL database. MongoDB is written in c++. Below is a brief document about installing a mongodb on a...
Encrypted Data Bags - Chef
Data Bags are a way to store information on the chef-server which all the cookbooks can access. Few more additional advantages are that we can encrypt the da...
Bootstrap Windows - knife-windows - Chef
knife-windows plugin adds additional functionality to the Chef Knife CLI tool for configuring / interacting with nodes running Microsoft Windows.
knife Quick Reference
This is a quick reference for few of the commands which I use often.
Remove Old Files using find Command
GNU find searches the directory tree rooted at each given file name by evaluating the given expression from left to right, according to the rules of preceden...
Moving RRD file from 32bit to 64bit Architecture
When we were working on a nagios monitoring system we were migrating from a 32bit nagios to a 64bit Architecture. Most of the graphs are not working as the R...